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BTW… as a coincidence, a Yoast plugin was discontinued, so i had to change how i grabbed a page keyword for the search. Solving 2 unrelated new problems is always fun!

Paul… rouge plugin… process of elimination. New client had an RSPV system and that was it… grumble…

I appreciate your patience and assistance!

widecast… thank you very much! I used the wpseo_get_value in conjunction with an affiliate link, and losing it made me crazy! check out https://www.ok2BeGreen.com and look at the search box for Amazon…

https://www.3Deers.com

Paul,

> .js file is present. I can expand and collapse sections, just not see the detail of any template. Date of file is Jan 31, 2018.

> I disabled the preview as suggested, but there was no difference.

> i have not tried to edit a template in quite a while (no need), so I suspect i need to systematically disable some recent plugins and find the conflict.

I could also potentially just edit the raw data… where is this stored in the MU version of WordPress? MySQL data or in a text file somewhere?

Again, thank you for the quick response.

Perry

Paul, I appreciate the very quick reply!

When looking at the templates, I used to be able to click one, and it would then show the details to edit. Now, clicking does nothing, so I can’t even see it, let alone edit.

I tried it on Chrome and Edge (which I rarely use, but did the due-diligence).

Perry

ok… not sure if anyone is looking, but i added something to set the default search to be the Yoast SEO focus keyword. You need the Yoast plugin, and also one called “PHP Code”…

See https://www.ok2begreen.com/ to look how it looks…
———————————————————–
<?php
$focuskw = wpseo_get_value(‘focuskw’, $post->ID);
if ($focuskw == “”) {
$tempGreen = get_the_title();
} else {
$tempGreen = $focuskw;
}
echo amazon_shortcode(“template=search &text4=$tempGreen”);
?>
<hr />

If anyone uses this, i’d sure love to know!

Outstanding work, @chasman! Thank you!

I have more work to convert my site (since the aStore is dying)… but you can see the box at the bottom of this page using [amazon template=search &text4=solar gable fan]

https://www.ok2begreen.com/diy-projects/solar-gable-fan-installation/

Any updates on this issue? I am passing a site off to a client, and really do not want them looking at the trashed forms. However, I am a hoarder and do not want to permanently delete… especially since they have changed course a couple of times and old stuff can be handy!

Ok… I have officially given up… I turned off this evil sitemap and turned on the one from BestWebSoft. With BestWebSoft, it generates the file (it is not dynamic) which is not what I wanted, but works… I had to edit for some client sites, too… but that was not the end of the world.

I have another client with the “older” version that I will not update… at least not unless someone proves this is fixed.

I just installed the new version (1.4.15). Same thing.
Using Firefox, click https://www.3deers.com/sitemap_index.xml.

You will see the message…
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://www.3deers.com/sitemap_index.xml
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”https://www.3deers.com/main-sitemap.xsl&#8221;?>
^

Now, right click and “View Page Source”. The first line is blank. Looks at any of the sub-pages… same message.

I appreciate the plugin developers looking at this… I get the error in other browsers, too… Firefoox is just nice and clean on the display/viewsource.

I have had a problem with the last couple of releases. I have posted elsewhere, so just trying a different support thread. I am sooo frustrated right now.

I’ve done the permalink thing, edited files. My sitemaps are rejected by google now (and organic traffic has take a nose dive).

A blank line is put at the beginning, which seems to be the error.

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://www.3deers.com/sitemap_index.xml
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”https://www.3deers.com/sitemap.xsl&#8221;?>
^

Additional insight time…

The problem is that a BLANK LINE is getting inserted at the beginning of all pages… html, xml… and google does not like that line.

I took one of the XML sitemaps generated (all gave me issues) saved it WITHOUT the blank line, submitted it to Google and it worked.

So… inspectors… what is putting in the freaking blanks line?

Anyone?

I have not done any data loads (unless you count uploading pictures into a picture gallery)… content is hand keyed.

I will disable all remaining plugings and renable one by one… but late tonight so not to mess up any clients.

Hmmmm… thinking out load… I added Jetpack not so long ago… but I really don’t want to disable that… ugh…

Yep! (I was at 3.5 before)… no difference…

I do not believe it is a size issue… I played with a couple other SiteMap programs (needing to completely disable the Yoast plugin, (not just it’s sitemap generator).

Interesting, the other programs had the same problem… one difference, though, was that I was able to view the source on the other ones… and I noticed the first line was blank. The error says “XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document”.

I wonder if WordPress or a stray plugin is putting in the blank line… I have disable many plugins (not all… I just can’t)… and have not fund the problem child…

www.remarpro.com… help! As a multi-user site I have several clients now with Sitemap issues…